Olympus Stylus 500 Digital - Manual (Page 49)

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Advanced shooting functions
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Histogram
When shooting still pictures, you can display a histogram showing the
brightness and contrast of your subject in the monitor. You can also
display the black and white areas directly on the picture.
Displaying the brightness and contrast of your subject enables fine
adjustment of the exposure.
OFF Hides the histogram.
ON Displays the histogram for every picture.
When [ON] is selected in P mode
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The part indicated in green in the histogram shows the luminance distribution
within the AF target mark.
If the peak fills too much of the frame, the image will
appear mostly white.
If the peak fills too much of the frame, the image will
appear mostly black.
Dark picture
Bright picture
AF target mark
AF target mark